[OpenAFS] 1.4.7pre3 client success on EL4&5 - and a question

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Stephan Wiesand
<Stephan.Wiesand@desy.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
>
> > Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> >
> > > Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> > >
> > > > There seems to be an ABI incompatibility somewhere: Our build of the
> AFS Perl module on this platform seems unable to use my token
> ("vsu_ClientInit: Could not get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.").
> > > >
> > > > The module was built against OpenAFS-1.2.13 in May 2006, but up to and
> including 1.4.6 it was still working fine with 1.4.x clients. Maybe that was
> by chance only?
> > > >
> > >
> > > What API is the Perl module calling to obtain tokens?
> > >
> >
> > The correct question.  What API is the Perl Module calling when that error
> is produced?
> >
>
>  Is this an answer?
>
>  % strace  perl -e 'use AFS::VLDB; AFS::VLDB->new'
>  ...
>  afs_syscall(0x14, 0, 0x400c5608, 0xbfffcf20, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not
> implemented)
>  write(2, "vsu_ClientInit: Could not get af"..., 67vsu_ClientInit: Could not
> get afs tokens, running unauthenticated.) = 67

so the modules don't fall back to the ioctl method. yuck.